Review: An ideal home for American science

For Britain's beleagured scientists, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is another world. The campus of fine homes and well-equipped research buildings sprawls over 40 hectacres of Long Island's northern shore. Green and uncluttered beside the tranquil water of Long Island Sound but within 50 kilometres of Manhattan, this feted entre of genetics education and research broadcasts the benefits of investment in scientific endeavour. Since 1989, it has also been a major contributor to the human genome project, the 15-year international programme to map our blueprint.

Renovation of the site, which first supported a laboratory more than 100 years ago when whaling, weaving and barrel-making were its main industries, began in the Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 10 Skyline Drive, Plainview, New York 11803, pp 352, dollars 75 plus postage). In this large-format book, she summarises the early history of the area, details in the centre's evolution and portrays ...

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